> On Sun, May 04, 2025 at 10:48:52PM -0700, Latincom wrote: >> e-mail server 7.7 >> How to stop this e-mails to root, please? Thanks. > > TL;DR: there is no 100% method, but simple steps like setting up spamd(8) > might help. > > There is no way to actually dictate what people send your way, but there *are* > ways to > limit what actually lands in your inbox. > > This particular category of extortion-style spam is annoying but only really > worrying > if the sending bot is actually in your infrastructure. > > The received: headers in your included message appear to be pretty local, so > you might want > to look at the actual server and its logs for clues as to where the message > could have > come from originally. > > When it comes to getting rid of annoying mail or at least not having it land > in your inbox, > it is fairly common practice to set up some kind of filtering on inbound. > > There are several useful books and articles out there that could help. The > most recent > and in fact very good book on running your own mail server by Michael Lucas > titled > "Run Your Own Mail Server" https://www.tiltedwindmillpress.com/product/ryoms/ > is worth > your money. > > I have written the odd thing about mail and getting rid of the worst myself. > I'd say get > Michael's book, take a peek at OpenBSD's in-base spamd(8) > https://man.openbsd.org/spamd > and related tools, and perhaps look up my stuff such as > > "Effective Spam and Malware Countermeasures - Network Noise Reduction Using > Free Tools" > (https://nxdomain.no/~peter/effective_spam_and_malware_countermeasures.html) > which has links > to various other things such as "In The Name Of Sane Email: Setting Up > OpenBSD's spamd(8) > With Secondary MXes In Play - A Full Recipe" > (https://nxdomain.no/~peter/in_the_name_of_sane_email.html) > and various others. Finally, for the category of spam you have quoted, you > might find > "The Despicable, No Good, Blackmail Campaign Targeting ... Imaginary Friends?" > (https://nxdomain.no/~peter/despicable_no_good_blackmail.html) and links > therein > a bit entertaining, for the greytrapping experience part if nothing else. > > All the best, > Peter > >
Thank you Peter! Reading and buying! I disable system users at auth dovecot: #!include auth-system.conf.ext, it does not work; and root at /etc/mail/virtuals. It seems that it could be the solution, but, mail for root is not delivered: # root u...@agroena.org
